List of international goals scored by Samuel Eto'o

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Samuel Eto'o Fils has scored a total of 56 goals in 118 caps for Cameroon

Samuel Eto'o is a retired Cameroonian professional footballer who played as a striker for the Cameroon national football team from 1997 to 2014. He is currently Cameroon's all-time goalscorer with 56 goals and 118 appearances, which also puts him as his nation's 2nd-most capped player behind Rigobert Song (137). He represented his country at four FIFA World Cups (1998, 2002, 2010, 2014), six Africa Cup of Nations (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010), and the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup.

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Eto'o helped Les Lions Indomptables win both the 2000 [1] and 2002 Africa Cup of Nations finals [2] and also reached the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, which they lost to France.

He earned his first cap for Cameroon on 9 March 1997 during a 5–0 loss in a friendly against Costa Rica, but did not score his first goal until 2000 in a 3–0 win against Ivory Coast in a 2000 Africa Cup of Nations group stage match. [3] His only hat-trick while playing for Cameroon would come in a 3–1 win against Angola in a 2006 Africa Cup of Nations group stage match. [4] He eventually decided to retire from international duty in 2014 after joining Everton. [5]

Goals

Scores and results list Cameroon's goal tally first. [6]
No.CapDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
11328 January 2000 Accra Sports Stadium, Accra, GhanaFlag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg  Ivory Coast 2–03–0 2000 African Cup of Nations
2146 February 2000Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria 1–02–1
31510 February 2000Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 2–03–0
41613 February 2000 National Stadium, Lagos, NigeriaFlag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria 1–0 2–2
( a.e.t. )
(4–3 p)		 2000 Africa Cup of Nations final
51719 April 2000 Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, CameroonFlag of Somalia.svg  Somalia 3–03–0 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
62028 January 2001 Stade de Kégué, Lomé, TogoFlag of Togo (3-2).svg  Togo 1–02–0
7261 July 2001Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, CameroonFlag of Togo (3-2).svg  Togo 1–02–0
8287 January 2002 Stade du 4-Août, Ouagadougou, Burkina FasoFlag of Burkina Faso.svg  Burkina Faso 1–03–1 Friendly
93129 January 2002 Stade Babemba Traoré, Sikasso, MaliFlag of Togo (3-2).svg  Togo 2–03–0 2002 African Cup of Nations
103527 March 2002 Charmilles Stadium, Geneva, SwitzerlandFlag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 1–12–2Friendly
113726 May 2002 Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium, Kobe, JapanFlag of England.svg  England 1–02–2
12396 June 2002 Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama, JapanFlag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia 1–01–0 2002 FIFA World Cup
134227 March 2003 7 November Stadium, Radès, TunisiaFlag of Madagascar.svg  Madagascar 2–02–0 2003 Tunis Four Nations Tournament
144419 June 2003 Stade de France, Saint-Denis, FranceFlag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1–01–0 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup
15518 February 2004 Stade Mustapha Ben Jannet, Monastir, TunisiaFlag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria 1–21–2 2004 African Cup of Nations
16526 June 2004Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, CameroonFlag of Benin.svg  Benin 1–12–1 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
17544 July 2004Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg  Ivory Coast 1–02–0
18555 September 2004 Osman Ahmed Osman Stadium, Cairo, EgyptFlag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 2–32–3
19594 June 2005 Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou, BeninFlag of Benin.svg  Benin 4–04–1
206321 January 2006 Cairo Military Academy Stadium, Cairo, EgyptFlag of Angola.svg  Angola 1–03–1 2006 Africa Cup of Nations
212–1
223–1
236425 January 2006Flag of Togo (3-2).svg  Togo 1–02–0
246529 January 2006Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2003-2006).svg  DR Congo 2–02–0
25693 June 2007 Antoinette Tubman Stadium, Monrovia, LiberiaFlag of Liberia.svg  Liberia 2–02–1 2008 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
267122 January 2008 Baba Yara Stadium, Kumasi, GhanaFlag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 1–32–4 2008 Africa Cup of Nations
272–4
287226 January 2008Flag of Zambia.svg  Zambia 4–05–1
297330 January 2008 Tamale Stadium, Tamale, GhanaFlag of Sudan.svg  Sudan 1–03–0
303–0
317731 May 2008 Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, CameroonFlag of Cape Verde.svg  Cape Verde 2–02–0 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
32788 June 2008 Stade George V, Curepipe, MauritiusFlag of Mauritius.svg  Mauritius 2–03–0
338021 June 2008Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, CameroonFlag of Tanzania.svg  Tanzania 1–02–1
342–1
358111 October 2008Flag of Mauritius.svg  Mauritius 1–05–0
362–0
378211 February 2009 Stade Robert Bobin, Bondoufle, FranceFlag of Guinea.svg  Guinea 2–13–1Friendly
383–1
39865 September 2009 Stade Omar Bongo, Libreville, GabonFlag of Gabon.svg  Gabon 2–02–02010 FIFA World Cup qualification
40879 September 2009Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, CameroonFlag of Gabon.svg  Gabon 2–02–1
418914 November 2009 Fez Stadium, Fez, MoroccoFlag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 2–02–0
429117 January 2010 Estádio Nacional da Tundavala, Lubango, AngolaFlag of Zambia.svg  Zambia 2–13–2 2010 Africa Cup of Nations
439221 January 2010Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 1–12–2
449719 June 2010 Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria, South AfricaFlag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 1–01–2 2010 FIFA World Cup
459824 June 2010 Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town, South AfricaFlag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1–11–2
469911 August 2010 Stadion Poznań, Poznań, PolandFlag of Poland.svg  Poland 1–03–0Friendly
472–0
481004 September 2010 Anjalay Stadium, Belle Vue Harel, MauritiusFlag of Mauritius.svg  Mauritius 1–03–1 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
492–1
501063 September 2011Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, CameroonFlag of Mauritius.svg  Mauritius 3–06–0
511077 October 2011 Stade des Martyrs, Kinshasa, DR CongoFlag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.svg  DR Congo 1–13–2
5210811 November 2011 Stade de Marrakech, Marrakesh, MoroccoFlag of Sudan.svg  Sudan 3–13–1 2011 LG Cup
5310913 November 2011Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 1–01–1
( a.e.t. )
(4–2 p)
5411223 March 2013Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, CameroonFlag of Togo (3-2).svg  Togo 1–02–1 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
552–1
561171 June 2014 Borussia-Park, Mönchengladbach, GermanyFlag of Germany.svg  Germany 1–02–2Friendly

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References

  1. ↑ "Cameroon 2-2 (4-3 pens) Nigeria". The Shot.
  2. ↑ "Cameroon 0-0 (3-2 pens) Senegal". worldfootball.net. 10 February 2002.
  3. ↑ "Cameroon 3-0 Ivory Coast". Soccerway. 28 February 2000.
  4. ↑ "Cameroon v Angola (2006 CAF Africa Cup of Nations)". Goal.com. 21 January 2006.
  5. ↑ "Samuel Eto'o: Cameroon striker retires from international football". BBC Sport. 27 August 2014.
  6. ↑ Samuel Eto'o Fils – Goals in International Matches Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
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